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When pulling up a User's profile from the Admin view, it's a pain to figure out which courses they're enrolled in this term, because the list is only sorted alphabetically, not by Term or by which cou...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Assignments, once "edit assignment dates" is selected, more than one assignment can be selected and "Batch Edit" can be used. However, Batch Edit can only be used to 1) remove or 2) shift dates. Wh...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Hi   I put forward the request to add a trash folder as part of the Canvas inbox system.  https://community.canvaslms.com/message/196984-re-if-i-send-an-email-through-canvas-and-i-accidently-delete-it...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I know we all LOVE  LOVE  LOVE  the "Message Students Who" feature from the Gradebook.    The one filter that doesn't seem right to me is the "Haven't been graded" option, because it includes the "Stu...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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There are some assignments that I manually enter grades for if it is submitted on paper in class. It would be nice to have a hot key option when entering grades for late, missing and excused work. Cur...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Hi Canvas community,   I'd like to share an idea that would really benefit us and the way we use Canvas. We use and abuse sub-accounts as we work with different university partners. You'll see in the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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For Online Assignment => Media Recording Submission  -- have the ability to put a time limit for the recordings submitted by students.   This came up during our Canvas Bootcamp, and we have a LOT of E...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Canvas provides a great feature to create a syllabus in a course. We generally encourage our instructors to create their content in the RCE (HTML) so that it is more accessible and usable than a PDF f...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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In most contexts, when a file such as a Word document or PDF is linked in Canvas, a preview button is added alongside the filename, which allows the user to preview the file in-line without downloadin...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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If something is visible from the Admin Tab, we should be able to disable it from Permissions.    Currently if you create an Admin role called Advisor, and give that role No Permissions, the Advisors s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We had a request to have the calendar items on the Canvas course calendar to be sorted Alphabetically as an alternative way to sort and view items (quizzes, assignments, et). 

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Current Limitation:  Currently, Canvas does not allow admins and instructors to weight (i.e. change the percentage of the assignment group) in separate course sections. The current solution is for adm...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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In Classic Quizzes, when taking an exam, the time remaining is in this format: XX Years, XX Months, XX Days, XX Hours, XX Minutes, XX Seconds. However, in New Quizzes, it only shows hours, minutes, an...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In the history of quizzes, when a teacher creates a quiz with multiple attempts, they usually set which score to keep (highest, latest, average). However, students will not be aware of this until they...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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As an admin, I am often copying courses within Canvas. Whenever I copy a course, I am automatically enrolled as a teacher in the course which can become irritating. I do not need to be a teacher in th...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently the permission for editing grades gives graders the right to also post grades. This means that different tutors (per section or group) can post grades earlier than others. It should be possi...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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When we assign students a peer review in canvas, they do not have access to the speedgrader. What they end up with is a slightly clunky assortment of pop-out windows for viewing/annotating and the rub...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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The idea: Our students (higher education: BA, MBA) have recently raised the following feedback: "discussions are disorganised. There is a mix of posts from the LEX team (student support), academics (t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Adding people individually to sections is cumbersome when dividing large classes into multiple sections. Doing this in batch way simplifies this task. Note: this has been suggested earlier but I like ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Thank you for implementing https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/2214-adjust-all-assignment-and-quiz-dates-on-a-single-page  and https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/16898-bulk-update-selectedall-ass...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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